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...only event about which Brooks is unsure is the dive. Pete Alter will definitely leap and twist, but the second spot could be filled by either John Friedman or Corky Vines...
...Named for the portly, garrulous parish beadle of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, who, upon being told by a judge that a woman is subservient to her husband, asserted: "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass-a idiot...
Tickle, Don't Twist. "The reason," exulted Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, "was this new sense of moderation." By that he meant the great easing in tensions between the country's pro-British Protestant majority and pro-Eire Catholic minority. Fading at last are the old hatreds that date back 45 years to the Troubles, when British Black and Tans hunted down the guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. In fact, the emotional climate has so changed that the chairman of the pro-Eire Nationalist Party, Londonderry Businessman Eddie McAteer, counseled his once fiery followers: "No more...
Unhappily-and here's the twist-milord's lust for battle counts as nothing compared to the lust inspired in him by a winsome peasant girl, Rosemary Forsyth. He needs her, he explains, as he needs bread, sunshine, fire in winter. Honor. Well, blast honor. He claims the lass on the very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another...
...BLOWS.") But Wolfe's dedication to the minute is real enough, and extremely articulate. He is fascinated by California where the Free-way has broken up the quantitative thought patterns of Western Civilization by forcing men to measure distance by time rather than miles. He chronicles every strange twist and turn of a fully motorized America and its departure--since World War II--from a basically land-oriented state of mind, which he can persuasively argue was vestigial feudalism, to a totally disoriented materialism. He celebrates "age segregation," the war and post-war generations' cult of self which, even...